Best Wedding Cakes

Whether youre a traditional fruit-cake lover, a chocoholic, or prefer to indulge in a savoury cake made out of cheese, our pick of the best wedding cakes are sure to add a final flourish to your big day. The centrepiece to a weddings style theme, take your cue from the abundance of tasty bakes on offer and inject some personality into your reception  whatever your budget.

Calling all chocoholics, this decadent four tier cake from Marks and Spencer is beautifully moist and smothered in indulgent milk chocolate. Finished with milk chocolate ribbons and filled with a decadent chocolate ganache, this affordable cake will make an impressive display that guests of all ages will enjoy tucking into.

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Peggy Porschen Wedding Cake, Best Wedding Cakes

Add a pinch of A-list glamour to your reception with this beautifully elegant cake from the stars go-to baker Peggy Porschen. Embellished with hand-crafter sugar flowers and dainty bead piping, the Victoria Sponge cake hidden underneath the creamy peach-coloured buttercream icing is deliciously moist and sure to delight. Baked with vanilla and layered with Peggy’s handmade raspberry jam and vanilla bean buttercream, this three tier cake is a great option for a summer wedding reception.

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Biscuiteers Wedding Cake, Best Wedding Cakes

Beautifully iced and in the shape of a three tier wedding cake topped with a glittering pink heart, this buttery, crumbly, and deliciously moreish vanilla biscuit from the Biscuiteers makes a great alternative to a traditional wedding cake. Packaged individually in tissue lined monochrome boxes, these tasty treats will make a great wedding favour too.

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Fliss Wedding Cake, Best Wedding Cakes

Some might be fancier, others might be flashier, but no cake beats the simple perfection of a Victoria sandwich. Cakes without icing are a great way to keep the cost down, decorate this moist and buttery sponge with fresh strawberries and a mixture or red and pink roses for a pretty, English country garden look.

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Rosalind Miller Wedding Cake, Best Wedding Cakes

Channel Parisian chic with this beautiful pastel confection creation. With fold-edged tiers and topped with a white bow, this hat box four tier cake may be pricey but will serve up to two hundred guests – while adding a dash of vintage charm to your reception.

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English Cheesecake Co Wedding Cake, Best Wedding Cakes

Creamy, crumbly, and crunchy, there’s nothing like a good cheesecake, and this strawberry and Marc Du Champagne makes a great lighter alternative to a traditional wedding cake. With three rich and indulgent tiers of creamy chocolate truffle cheesecake infused with champagne, sitting on a crunchy chocolate cookie base and topped with plump strawberries, this is a hard to beat option for a summer wedding.

This contemporary chocolate cake covered in hand crafted dark chocolate and artisan praline truffles is pure indulgence. With layers of dark chocolate truffle cake filled and masked with a decadently dark chocolate ganache and covered with chocolate marzipan, this beautiful two tier creation is a chocoholics dream.

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Waitrose Wedding Cake, Best Wedding Cakes

This three tier stacked vanilla sponge cake is a great option for white chocolate lovers. Filled with a creamy white chocolate ganache and sweet raspberry jam, it will make for an impressive centrepiece. Beautifully covered with almond paste and decorated with pretty white chocolate curls, it’s a great alternative to the traditional fruit cake.

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Smeatons Wedding Cake, Best Wedding Cakes

If you don’t have a sweet tooth, it doesn’t mean that you have to forgo your wedding cake. This quirky seven tier ‘cake’, is made out of the best British cheeses – including a Cornish brie, Godminster Cheddar, a Somerset Camembert, a white blue cheese, and a red Leicester. Serving up to 90 people, this red and white tower will make an impressive winter wedding centrepiece.

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Choccywoccydoodah Wedding Cake, Best Wedding Cakes

Calling all music fans, this psychedelic chocolate creation from London chocolatiers Choccywoddydoodah is a delicious testament to the Beatles. Embossed with the words ‘all you need is love’ over the five tiered cake covered in Belgian white chocolate. Available in a selection of moist sponge cakes and sizes, this colourful creation will transform the humble wedding cake into a delicious spectacle.

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Purita Hyam Wedding Cake, Best Wedding Cakes

With three heart-shaped tiers of deliciously rich, moist, and nutty Sacher Torte cake all topped with fresh strawberries and blueberries, this handmade chocolate cake from Purita Hyam is a great summer-time option. Covered with smooth white Belgian chocolate and serving up to 120 guests, display this beautiful handmade design on a silver cake stand.

This pretty three tier heart-shaped cake from the Little Venice Cake Company is sure to add a dash of romance to your wedding reception. Beautifully decorated with handmade sugar rosebuds, choose from a delicate vanilla cake layered with Madagascan buttercream, an indulgent chocolate truffle torte, a fresh and zingy lemon cake layered with lemon curd buttercream, or a traditional rich fruit celebration cake – depending on the season.

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